Mozart's Method

Mozart's method of compositiou was such as cotüd only have been pursued by a child of genius. He would rise early, eat a hearty breakfast and then stroll for several hours in a forest near his home, where, inspired by nature's beauties, heavenly melodies caine trooping through his brain. Repairing to his cottage, he would summon his wife, a very witty woman, and bid her teil him stories. He would then mount his high stool and proceed to cominit these inspirations to paper, his wife telling him jokes and funny stories while he wrote. These' he enjoyed inunensely, frequently interrupting her with hearty bursts of laughter and sometimes even falling from the stool and rolling on the floor. But amid all this hilarity and uproar the flow of music which was to move the world went steadily on. His productions wêre wrought without the least thought or study, but caine almost unbidden "direct from heaven. " Like Shakespeare, he was purely the creatu-e of inspiration, a genius of the highest order. ■